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Using the source, Luke

Kevin Chu
Sun, 16 Aug 1998 18:45:07 -0700

I didn't have any problems getting sound compiled into the kernel or
as a module, with Red Hat 4.2. With Red Hat 5.1, it didn't work very
well. Mike Wangsmo reveals part of the reason below. This is the
tail end of a mailing-list discussion about what will be in 2.2
kernels.

Kevin Chu wrote:

> What's modular sound? Soundcard support as a module has been
> available for a while (in stable kernels), so modular sound must be
> something new.
>
> By the way, after thirty or so kernel compiles, I figured out how to
> make the sound work on my system. Take the sb and opl3 lines out of
> conf.modules. :) If they're in there, modprobe "can't locate" those
> modules. /usr/sbin/sndconfig puts those lines in there. If you're
> using the stock 5.1, leave them, otherwise if your sound's not working
> try taking those lines out. (8-bit Soundblaster 2.0 as a module.)

Mike Wangsmo <
> wrote:

[ modular sound means sound support is available... ]

> As a single monolithic module. Alan Cox ported the OSS sound drivers
> to be modular in that each component such as opl3 ,sb, gus, etc... are
> available as individual modules. That is what the RedHat 5.1 kernel
> uses (actually it is a very old version). The stuff in 2.1.11x is
> *much* better.

Kevin

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